1993 - Taylor Momsen, American actress
1985 - Gael Clichy, French footballer
1980 - Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum41)
1977 - Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
1977 - Rebecca St. James, Australian-born musician
1976 - Chad Pennington, American football player
1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1969 - Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
1965 - Jeremy Piven, American actor
1964 - Sandra Bullock, American actress
1961 - Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
1957 - Nana Visitor, American actress
1956 - Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
1950 - Nelinho, Brazilian football player
1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
1945 - Helen Mirren, English actress
1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1942 - Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak president
1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
1939 - John Howard, twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia
1939 - Bob Lilly, American football player
1928 - Francesco Cossiga, eighth President of the Italian Republic
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
1926 - James Best, American actor
1923 - Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (d. 2002)
1922 - Blake Edwards, American film director
1922 - Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 - Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
1920 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983)
1909 - Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979)
1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
1903 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963)
1897 - Paul Gallico, American author (d. 1976)
1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
1892 - Sad Sam Jones, baseball player (d. 1966)
1886 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
1875 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
1874 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
1865 - Philipp Scheidemann, German politician (d. 1939)
1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
1855 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
1829 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912)
1802 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1844)
1782 - John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
1678 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)